Keywords: Dry dock
Item 40275
Dry dock, South Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 54902
Schooner 'Bowdoin' in drydock, South Portland, 1921
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1921 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Exhibit
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy
"… and night soil off of the Commercial Street docks into the Fore River. In 1878, Portland passed an ordinance prohibiting residents from emptying or…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846
"Paine did an extensive business in the lumber trade between here and Liverpool and other foreign ports, his ships returning with salt, coal, dry…"
Site Page
"Beginnings Dock at Northeast Harbor, ca. 1903Jesup Memorial Library Daniel Kimball opened and operated the first store, and the only store for…"
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars